Destroyed by fire years ago the infamous Philadelphia State Hospital was known as a warehouse for the criminally insane. But one man never left. By night Luther walks Philadelphia's backstreets drawing to him the mad the corrupt the fallen. By day he roams the catacombs beneath the city killing his prey. Detectives Kevin Byrne & Jessica Balzano are called to a bizarre murder scene: a man has been killed by a railroad spike driven into his head & left sitting on a bench in a local park. But it is just the beginning of a trail of evil that leads back to the hospital & the nightmares it still contains... ...

Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the small Minnesota town of Deephaven an entire family has been killed
- husband wife two daughters dogs. There's something about the scene that pokes at Lucas's cop instincts
- it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched-earth retribution he's seen in drug killings sometimes. But this is a seriously upscale town & the husband was an executive vice president at a big bank. It just doesn't seem to fit. Until it does. & where it leads Lucas will take him into the darkest nightmare of his life.

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Gaylas only hope is about to turn into her worst nightmare. Tricked into coming to Ireland with the offer of a good job all Gayla wants to do now is run. As far & as fast as she can. Because her captors are close behind her & they want her dead
- no matter what. Two people are hunting her... Crime lord Arturus Strazdas has never had a woman he hasnt paid for & never had a friend who wasnt afraid of him. Now his brother is dead & hes determined to find
- & destroy
- the woman responsible... And neither one will rest till she is dead. On the other side of the city Detective Inspector Lennon wants a quiet Christmas with his six year old daughter. But as the bodies start to mount up he finds himself in a desperate race to save a womans life & track down two very dangerous killers. Stuart Nevilles breakneck new thriller.


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Exciting new magical adventure series for girls
- will you answer the call of Silver Dolphins? Antonia is a secret Silver Dolphin
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In June 1631 pirates from Algiers & armed troops of the Turkish Ottoman Empire led by the notorious pirate captain Morat Rais stormed ashore at the little harbour village of Baltimore in West Cork. They captured almost all the villagers & bore them away to a life of slavery in North Africa. The prisoners were destined for a variety of fates
- some would live out their days chained to the oars as galley slaves while others would spend long years in the scented seclusion of the harem or within the walls of the Sultans palace. The old city of Algiers with its narrow streets intense heat & lively trade was a melting pot where the villagers would join slaves & freemen of many nationalities. Only two of them ever saw Ireland again. The Sack of Baltimore was the most devastating invasion ever mounted by Islamist forces on Ireland or Engl&. Des Ekins exhaustive research illuminates the political intrigues that ensured the captives were left to their fate & provides a vivid insight into the kind of life that would have awaited the slaves amid the souks & seraglios of old Algiers. The Stolen Village" is a fascinating tale of international piracy & culture clash nearly 400 years ago & is the first book to cover this relatively unknown & under-researched incident in Irish history. It was shortlisted for the Argosy Irish Nonfiction Book of the Year Award."
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Stone Cold is an exciting & disturbing thriller by Robert Swindells. A tense exciting thriller combined with a perceptive & harrowing portrait of life on the streets as a serial killer preys on the young & vulnerable homeless. 17-year-old Link is distrustful of people until he pairs up with Deb homeless like him. But what Deb doesn't tell him is that she's an ambitious young journalist on a self-imposed assignment to track down the killer & that she's prepared to use herself as bait... Winner of the Carnegie Medal Robert Swindells lives on the Yorkshire moors & is a full-time writer. He has won the Children's Book Award twice for Brother In The Land & for Room 13. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for Stone Cold & also the Sheffield Book Award. Also by Robert Swindells: Brother in the Land; Room 13; Stone Cold; Nightmare Stairs; Unbeliever; Blitzed; Ruby Tanya; The Thousand Eyes of Night; The Tunnel; The Shade of Hettie Daynes; Burnout; In the Nick of Time; Daz 4 Zoe; Snakebite; Snapshot; Branded; Roger's War; No Angels; Wrecked; Jacqueline Hyde; Stayling Up; A Serpent's Tooth; Follow a Shadow; Timesnatch; Unbeliever; & The Last Bus. ...

Investigating a serial killer in an affluent suburban town is difficult & dangerous & with the added pressures from the town selectmen & the media the heat is turned up on Jesse. Hes spengin too much time with the bottle & with his ex-wife neither of which helps him or the case. & the harder these outside forces push against him the more Jesse retreats into himslef convinced despite the odds that its up to him alone to stop the killing. ...

On 14 January 2003 Steve Austin was voted the best professional wrestler of the last ten years in a WWE fan poll. In addition to the WWE he has wrestled in the ECW the WCW & WWF. He has been known as The Ring Master Superstar Steve Austin stunning Steve Austin & now Stone Cold Steve Austin. He has held the tag team belt in WCW & WWF the Million Dollar Belt & the Intercontinental Championship in WWF. He won the 1996 King of the Ring the 1997 Royal Rumble & the Larry Flynt Freedom of Speech Slammy. Steve Austin is by far the best & most exciting wrestler today. A notoriously private man this is the book his fans have been waiting for: his own personal story told in full for the first time. ...

A poor stone cutter who wished he was a rich man has his wish granted. He then keeps changing his wish & each wish is granted. Finally he wishes himself back as he was at the start of the story. * Turquoise/ Band 7 books offer literay language & extended descriptions with longer sentences & a wide range of unfamiliar terms. * Text type
- A story from another culture (Japan). * The flowcharts on pages 22 & 23 illustrate the story in sequence providing opportunities for speaking & listening & scaffolding writing. * Curriculum links
- Citizenship: Choices; Music: Exploring sounds.

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When the newly-released demons set the Order of the Crow an impossible ultimatum
- deliver the Philosopher's Stone or suffer fatal
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